The beloved author of Where the Wild Things Are passed away in 2012, but a children’s picture book he created nearly two decades ago, Presto and Zesto in Limboland, recently resurfaced.

He co-wrote the story with his longtime friend and collaborator Arthur Yorinks, but the illustrations are all Sendak: vivid, a little wacky and tinged with dark humor.

In Presto and Zesto in Limboland, two friends try to navigate a surreal world where the cakes are delicious, the monsters carry bagpipes, and everybody somehow has multiple goats.

“What a miracle it was to find this treasure buried in the archive!” Sendak’s longtime publisher, Michael di Capua, said in a statement. “It’s just as fresh and appealing as when Arthur and Maurice created it. It’s an unexpected gift for all of us.”

Check out an exclusive interior illustration from Presto and Zesto in Limboland, available Sept. 4 from Michael di Capua Books/ HarperCollins.

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